Vladimir Putin “is not joking when he talks about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons,” the American president said on Thursday.
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US President Joe Biden ruled Thursday, October 6, that Russian threats to use nuclear weapons in the conflict in Ukraine put the world at risk of“apocalypse” for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis in the midst of the Cold War. From October 14 to 28, 1962, the missile crisis installed in Cuba by the Soviet Union and spotted by the United States shook the planet, raising fears of a nuclear war.
“We haven’t faced the prospect of an apocalypse since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis” in 1962, Joe Biden said at a fundraiser in New York. “There is, for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, a direct threat of the use of nuclear weapons if things continue to go the way they are going now,” he insisted.
Faced with stubborn Ukrainian resistance, fueled by Western military aid, Vladimir Putin alluded to the atomic bomb in a televised speech on September 21. He said he was ready to use “all means” in his arsenal against the West, which he had accused of wanting “destroy” Russia.
Experts say such attacks would likely employ tactical nuclear weapons, which are smaller in explosive charge than a strategic nuclear weapon. But Joe Biden has warned that even a tactical nuclear strike could ignite a wider conflagration. Vladimir Poutine “does not joke when he talks about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons, because his army, one could say, is very underperforming”, again judged the American president.